Move K8s Stateful Pods Between Nodes

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Bret is joined by Philip Andrews and Dan Muret of Cast AI to discuss pod live migration between nodes in a Kubernetes cluster.

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Cast AI dynamically moves your pod to a different node without downtime or data lost. It copies your running pod data, memory, IP address, and TCP connections from one node to another in real time.

In this episode, we nerd out over how Cast AI works under the hood, use cases for it, including hardware and OS maintenance on a node. I've got a feeling Cast AI has a winning feature on their hands.

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  • (00:00) - Introduction
  • (02:21) - Cast AI Elevator Pitch
  • (05:20) - Stateful Workloads
  • (08:26) - Bin Packing in Live Migration
  • (11:58) - Stateful vs Stateless
  • (14:06) - Networking and Storage Considerations
  • (21:26) - Future Developments and Use Cases
  • (24:06) - ML Workloads
  • (26:48) - Live Migration of Spot Instances
  • (29:24) - Live Migration Process Explained
  • (37:25) - Challenges and Engineering Behind Live Migration
  • (42:19) - Getting Started with Cast AI

Creators and Guests

Bret Fisher
Host
Bret Fisher
Cloud native DevOps Dude. Course creator, YouTuber, Podcaster. Docker Captain and CNCF Ambassador. People person who spends too much time in front of a computer.
Beth Fisher
Producer
Beth Fisher
Producer of the DevOps and Docker Talk and Agentic DevOps podcasts. Assistant producer on Bret Fisher Live show on YouTube. Business and proposal writer by trade.
Cristi Cotovan
Editor
Cristi Cotovan
Video editor and educational content producer. Descript and Camtasia coach.
Dan Muret
Guest
Dan Muret
Solution Architect/Sales Engineer/Tech Enthusiast
Philip Andrews
Guest
Philip Andrews
Global Field CTO - Working with customers to improve efficiency at scale through AI Automation.
Move K8s Stateful Pods Between Nodes
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